Robert Farley @drfarls.bsky.social Co-founder Lawyers, Guns and Money. Works at Patterson School of Diplomacy and International Commerce at the University of Kentucky
Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org We're the Electronic Frontier Foundation. We're a nonprofit that fights for your privacy and free speech online. Find all of EFF's social media accounts at eff.org/social.
The Gotham Guillotine @gothamguillotine.bsky.social ☭ New York's Sharpest Socialist Literary Magazine! ☭
🚩Issue 2 OUT NOW 🚩
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Forum on the Arms Trade @forumarmstrade.bsky.social forumarmstrade.org -- The Forum is a network of civil society experts and a point of contact for strengthening public efforts to address the humanitarian, economic and other implications of arms transfers, security assistance, and weapons use.
Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social Politics, politics, politics
Democracy In Africa @democracyinafrica.bsky.social Delivering in-depth analysis, the latest news, interviews, and data on African politics.
🔗 linktr.ee/dia_affairs
David M. Perry @lollardfish.bsky.social Journalist & historian. Pub musician. Dad. Husband. Fishing obsessed. I also do dishes. Order: #ThePublicScholar - https://tinyurl.com/thepublicscholar.
Democracy Defenders Action @democracydefendersaction.org Democracy Defenders Action brings together a bipartisan, all-star team of experts to fight autocracy, protect the constitution and safeguard American democracy. https://linktr.ee/DemocracyDefendersAction
@friendsofUSAID @friendsofusaid.bsky.social From and For the American people. Follow @friendsofusaid on IG and X. 
Ned Richardson-Little @historyned.bsky.social Historian of international crime, international law, human rights and the illiberal right in Germany at ZZF Potsdam. Also teaching at FU Berlin. he/him.
Latest book: https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/german-democratic-republic-9781350341517/
New Lines Magazine @newlinesmag.bsky.social An award-winning magazine for the best writing from around the world. Longform essays and informative analysis run daily.
http://lnk.bio/newlinesmag
Dr Awet T. Araya @awettaraya.bsky.social Archaeologist | Museum Curator |Academic
Research: Islamic, Medieval Archaeology, Material culture, Horn of Africa, Red Sea, Indian Ocean, Arabian/Persian Gulf
Chronicle of Higher Education @chronicle.com Academe’s most trusted resource for independent journalism, career development, and forward-looking intelligence.
Website: www.chronicle.com
Institute for Humane Studies @theihs.org We are building and equipping a network of 10,000+ scholars and leaders to turn the ideas of freedom into outcomes in classrooms, policy, and culture.
State Capture Accountability Project @state-capture.bsky.social An international non-profit that works to counter state capture through collaborative investigations, policy advocacy, and legal action.
PassBlue @passblue.bsky.social Award-winning, fearless indy coverage of the UN/foreign affairs. Tips: Signal: passblue.22 or info@passblue.com www.passblue.com
Azalea Dunn/A.Z. Dunsworth 🇯🇲 🇳🇬 🍉 @azaleadunn.bsky.social Island girl 🌺
African princess 👑
Queer & proud 🏳️🌈
Writer of interracial/multicultural romance (as Azalea) & sci fi/fantasy (as A.Z.) http://books2read.com/u/38MPwV
Currently based in Jamaica.
The Zach of Zachs @policyunfiltered.bsky.social Policy Analyst | Pro Human Rights | YouTube: Policy Unfiltered | Fitness Enthusiast | Seattle, WA
Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com Jewish, trans, abolitionist name-your-own-price IL lawyer. Forever loving @mistymotors.net. No legal advice; not your lawyer. Free Palestine. She/her.
Post-Left Watch @postleftwatch.bsky.social Highlighting and keeping receipts on post-left (right-wing politics with vaguely leftist aesthetics) pundits and podcasters.
gamera obscura @ohrobin.bsky.social robin sky leigh
writer & socialist working on labor, capitalist globalization, and the calculation and modeling of the vast socialized harms behind privatized profits.
she | her
Adam Sandor @adamsandor.bsky.social Researching South-South security cooperation and armed groups in Africa. #Mali #Niger #Nigeria #Mozambique #CAR.
Terrence Lyons @tlyons.bsky.social Student of civil wars and contentious politics, particularly in the Horn of Africa
PPLAAF @pplaaf.bsky.social The Platform to Protect Whistleblowers in Africa seeks to defend whistleblowers, as well as strategically litigate and advocate on their behalf where their disclosures speak to the public interest of African citizens.
https://www.pplaaf.org/
Emmanuel Gamard @emmanuelgamard.bsky.social Senior Communications Officer, Africa Program @crisisgroup.org
ONE Campaign @onecampaign.bsky.social ONE fights for a more just world by demanding the investments needed to create economic opportunities and healthier lives in Africa. Because none of us are equal until all of us are equal.
www.one.org
Beverly Ochieng @beverlyochieng.bsky.social Obnoxious literary fiction reader | Sahel coups watcher | Russian paramilitaries stalker | Associate Director, Francophone Africa, Control Risks | occasional typos, usual disclaimers | so-called "Western puppet"
Dakar/Nairobi/Bookshelf
FREEDOM SPECTRUM OF EAST AFRICA (FSEA) @kitenda.bsky.social East African LGBTQ activist aiming at safety, visibility and equality for LGBTQ folks
https://sites.google.com/view/freedom-spectrum-east-africa
Bate Felix TT @batefelix.bsky.social Reuters Breaking News Editor for Sub-Saharan Africa.
James North @jamesnorth7.bsky.social Covering the Global South for 51 years. Wrote “Freedom Rising,” about apartheid South Africa. Bylines @thenation.com, @newrepublic.com, @truthdig.com. Editor @Mondoweiss.net. Reporting about Trump's assault on #immigrants.
Nina Wilen @ninawilen.bsky.social Dir. Africa Program Egmont Institute, Assoc Prof Lund University, xEIC International Peacekeeping. Research on military, Sahel & Great Lakes, peacekeeping, gender, interventions
Becca Milfeld @beccamilfeld.bsky.social Dakar-based AFP journalist covering West Africa. Former Washingtonian, always a Texan.
The China-Global South Project @chinagsproject.bsky.social Independent, non-partisan coverage of China in Africa & the Global South: www.chinaglobalsouth.com
FR: https://projetafriquechine.com/
ES: https://chinalasamericas.com/
Tom Mukhwana @tommukhwana.bsky.social Investigative journalist at Africa Uncensored. Part time coach potato.
Nairobi, Kenya.
Vijay Prashad @vijayprashad.bsky.social Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Editor at LeftWord Books (India) & Inkani Books (South Africa). Chief Correspondent of Globetrotter. Live in Santiago, Chile.
Latest book: On Cuba, with Noam Chomsky.
Africa Center for Strategic Studies @africacenter.bsky.social Advancing African security by expanding understanding, providing a trusted platform for dialogue, building partnerships, and catalyzing solutions
The Conversation Africa @africa.theconversation.com An independent source of news and views on Africa from the academic and research community.
Read us at theconversation.com/africa
Ryan Musser @ryanmusser.bsky.social Posts about current events/politics/development in Africa, building better cities, local Washington DC issues, and how biking is the best form of transportation. Live in Ward 8/EOTR. Lover of front porches and #bikeDC.
Check out my Africa starter packs.
Justin Pearce @justinpearce.bsky.social https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Justin-Pearce-5
Historian of 20th century Southern Africa especially Angola
Senior lecturer, Stellenbosch Uni @stellhistory.bsky.social
Senior editor, Journal of Southern African Studies @jsas-journal.bsky.social
Vegan
Sarah Zimmerman @sjzimmerman.bsky.social Historian, gender, West Africa, French imperialism, militarization, Author of Militarizing Marriage (Ohio UP 2020). Past-présidente of French Colonial Historical Society, BCDSS alum, recovering Oakland As Fan, PNW hiking/backpacking...w/ signature typoes
Ayesha Omar 🇿🇦 🇬🇧 @ayeshaomardr.bsky.social British Academy International Fellow• SOAS University of London• Senior Lecturer•University of the Witwatersrand•Intellectual History• Comparative Political Theory•Africa/ South Africa• M&G 200 YSA• Gardening• Calligraphy
Ore Ogunbiyi @oreogunb.bsky.social Africa Correspondent @ The Economist. Lagos 
Rachel Beatty Riedl @beattyriedl.bsky.social Professor @ Cornell University, Director Center on Global Democracy. Teach/research Democracy & Authoritarianism, African politics. Host, Ufahamu Africa podcast
Andrew Lebovich @andrewlebovich.bsky.social Research Fellow, Clingendael Institute. Post-doc with with the Danish Institute for International Studies. PhD in African History from Columbia University. Learning and writing about the Sahel, North Africa, and France.
Tim Longman 🏳️🌈 @timlongman.bsky.social Poli Sci and IR prof at BU. Posts on Africa, human rights, US politics, LGBTQ+, religion & politics. Progressive, Christian, proud gay dad.
2 books on Rwanda. Currently writing book on church and state across Africa and another on LGBTQ backlash in Africa
Dr. Yolande Bouka @yolandebouka.bsky.social Asst Prof Africa | Gender and Feminist Theory | Critical & Decolonial IR | Race and IR | 
Farrah Fazal @farrahfazal.bsky.social 📺Doc Producer/Director | EP
🎤Journalist: former war correspondent, fascism, race, politics, disinfo, extremism, cults, immigration, US-MX border
♥️Radical Love
🕊️”Truthful not neutral”
🌍US| AFRICA|UK|CAN|MIDDLE EAST
✊🏽SAG-AFTRA | 9 EMMYS
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Greg Carr @africanacarr.bsky.social 2x Male HBCU Prof of Year. Howard U AfAm Studs & HU Sch of Law. Moving to #JailbreakTheBlackUniversity with #TheRenewedNormal in Knarrative.com , #Knubia and #TheBlackTable . The World is a Classroom!
R. S. DIENG @drlandislife.bsky.social Award-winning academic, educator & author researching #politics, #feminism, #artivism, #land, #food and #labour in #Senegal, Francophone #Africa & #WesternEurope | Personal Account
Barred and Boujee aka Madiba Dennie @audrelawdamercy.blacksky.app Words at ballsandstrikes.org, and even more words in The Originalism Trap: How Extremists Stole the Constitution and How We the People Can Take It Back
Out now at tinyurl.com/originalismtrap !
Provenance Integrity Institute @provenanceii.bsky.social 🏛 Provenance Integrity Institute Limited (NGO)
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The Weekday @professormusgrave.bsky.social Professor of political science. Willing expat becoming an unwilling emigre. Essentially millennial, analytically millenarian. https://musgrave.substack.com
Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org Straight-shooting information and analysis at the intersection of national security, law, and policy.
Support Lawfare at https://www.lawfaremedia.org/support
🇺🇬 TMS RUGE 🇺🇦 @tmsruge.bsky.social Founder/CEO: @RT_farms; Creator: @qwezibeauty; Cofounder: @hivecolab; Educated (sometimes) Angry African 😜
Mo Ibrahim Foundation @mo.ibrahim.foundation https://mo.ibrahim.foundation/ Strengthening the African voice on global challenges.
Official account.
RT ≠ endorsement
Emily Burrill @esburrill.bsky.social Historian @ UVA History | modern West African history | Global 1950s | Global democratic formations | French empire | Feminist & Gender Studies | Law & Society | Author @ OH U. Press & U. of WI Press | Editor at U. VA Press | Vermonter in VA
Bwesigye (aka Friday) @bwesigye.bsky.social Nyanja born and raised living in Los Angeles. Assistant Professor of Africana Studies. Afro-nationalist.
Robbie Corey-Boulet @rcoreyb.bsky.social West and Central Africa bureau chief, Reuters. Author of Love Falls On Us: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/love-falls-on-us-9781786995179/. Robbie.corey-boulet@thomsonreuters.com. Ex-AFP, WPR. Previously in Riyadh, Addis, Abidjan, elsewhere. 5x marathoner
Public Affairs Research Institute (PARI) @parinstitute.bsky.social PARI is an African research institute affiliated to the University of Johannesburg and Wits University, providing new and original social science research, advocacy and implementation support for South Africa, the global South and beyond.
Africa Spectrum @africaspectrum.bsky.social #OpenAccess journal @giga-hamburg.de publishing original research on politics, societies, and economics in Africa @sagepub.com.
Editors-in-Chief: @maxinerubin.com, @marthacj.bsky.social & Dr. Kendra Dupuy
Website: https://journals.sagepub.com/home/afr
Africa Confidential @africa-confidential.com In-depth analysis of political, economic and security developments across the African continent since 1960.
See more: http://africa-conf.com/m/Africa-Conf
Rachel Savage @rachelmsavage.bsky.social Southern Africa Correspondent at The Guardian. Brit abroad.
Carnegie Democracy @carnegiedcg.bsky.social The Democracy, Conflict, and Governance Program at the Carnegie Endowment conducts independent analysis on global policy, polarization, tech, equality & more.
RT ≠ endorsement
https://carnegieendowment.org/programs/democracy-conflict-and-governance
Mara Revkin @mararevkin.bsky.social Associate Professor of Law & Political Science @Duke. Conflict, migration, peacebuilding, transitional justice & humanitarian/development aid. Rhymes w/ @jonpetkun.bsky.social. Web: https://law.duke.edu/fac/revkin
Folashade Soule @folasoule.bsky.social Senior Research Associate@UniofOxford| Digital geopolitics - Africa-China - IR of Africa| SciencesPo alumnus| Reviews editor African Affairs Journal| Policyfacing academic
V-Dem Institute @vdeminstitute.bsky.social The V-Dem Institute is an independent research institute and the Headquarters of the V-Dem project, based at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. The V-Dem project (Varieties of Democracy) is a unique approach to conceptualizing and measuring democracy. 
Matthias Rompel @matthiasrompel.bsky.social Director East Africa & Horn of Africa @giz.de, formerly Country Director Ethiopia, Djibouti, Malawi. Global Citizen, International Cooperation Practitioner, Hon. Professor @jlugiessen.bsky.social
Afrobarometer @afrobarometer.bsky.social The world’s leading source of high-quality data & analysis on what Africans are thinking. Research network, headquarters in Accra, partners in 40 African countries.
Grieve Chelwa @gchelwa.bsky.social Associate Professor of Political Economy at the Africa Institute. From Lusaka.
Substack 👉🏿 https://gchelwa.substack.com
UC Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation @ucigcc.bsky.social IGCC is a research network comprised of scholars from across the University of California who produce and use research to help build a more peaceful, equitable world. 
Joan Ricart-Huguet @ricarthuguet.bsky.social Assoc. Prof. at Loyola Maryland & Visiting Senior Fellow at LSE. Princeton PhD. Political leaders, education, colonialism, development, inequality, culture, Africa. https://www.ricarthuguet.com/research
Oscar Goff @theoscargoff.bsky.social Writer/movie rat. EIC and Senior Film Critic, Boston Hassle. Film columnist, Cambridge Day. Member: BSFC, OFCS, BOFCA. 🍅-approved. He/him.
https://bostonhassle.com/author/oscargoff/
https://www.cambridgeday.com/author/oscar-goff/
Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com Public records enthusiasts. Tracking the flow of post-OBBBA homeland security procurements and government contracts.
https://www.projectsaltbox.com/
Proudly based in Baltimore, MD. ⚫️🟡🦀🔴⚪️
Track ICE warehouses: https://tracker.projectsaltbox.com
Erica Chenoweth @chenoweth.bsky.social Political scientist & part-time farmer. Books: 'On Revolutions' (2022), 'Civil Resistance' (2021), & 'The Politics of Terror' (2019). Coming soon: 'Bread & Roses' & 'The End of People Power.' https://www.ericachenoweth.com. What a time to be alive.
Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social International Relations prof at U. Illinois. Editor of Arc Digital. Author “Drones and Terrorism.” Politics, national security, and occasional nerdery.
Yaqiu Wang 王亚秋 @yaqiu.bsky.social Human rights and democracy researcher | Fellow at the Penn Project on the Future of U.S.-China Relations at @Upenn.edu | https://www.wangyaqiu.com/ | 勇气是最珍贵的品质
Order from Ashes @orderfromashes.bsky.social International policy that's independent, critical, and progressive.
Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social Writer of books. Guardian columnist. Newsletter at MeditationsInAnEmergency.com. Board member, Third Act and Oil Change International.
Equal Justice Initiative @eji.org We work to end mass incarceration, excessive punishment, and racial injustice. Led by Bryan Stevenson. Creators of @legacysites.eji.org
Free Press @freepress.bsky.social We’re a nonpartisan organization fighting for your rights to connect and communicate.
Learn more: FreePress.net
Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social Journalist & author of REIGN OF TERROR, contributor to Zeteo. New comic book series: NO ONE ESCAPES THE DIALECTIC, from Boom! Studios. Subscribe to FOREVER WARS for ‘natsec’ journalism: https://www.forever-wars.com
Signal: attackerman.81
Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social Writer. Host of Galaxy Brain, the podcast. Never bet against the dumbest outcome. @cwarzel.92 on signal if you have a tip. I have a podcast so please like and subscribe.
Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social I am the host of Behind the Bastards and overlord of podcasts at Cool Zone Media
David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social Assistant Professor in International Relations at the University of Sussex (own views, obviously).
Interested in British (and Western) foreign relations in the Middle East and elsewhere, and how they're shaped by legacies of colonialism.
Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social Former congressional candidate and journalist trying to change politics for good :) | www.kapow.works/
Erin Kane @dianamonkey.bsky.social anthropology, ballet, birds, cats, conservation, cricket, cross stitch, ecology, grant writing, guenons, lifting heavy things, orangutans, ponds, primates, research development, team science, yiddish. she/her
Matiangai Sirleaf @matiangai.bsky.social Scholar. Writer. Teacher. Advocate.
https://matiangai.com
Order Race & National Security (OUP 2023) https://global.oup.com/academic/product/race-and-national-security-9780197648230?lang=en&cc=us
Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social Queer activist, writer, and musician causing problems for the powerful. Director of Fight for the Future. New album "AMAB/ACAB" out 9/19/25 on Get Better Records. $5 ft. Eve 6 out now on your fav surveillance capitalist streaming platform she/her/they/them
NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social I have never felt more politically homeless. Parody. Merch: https://tinyurl.com/msjjmwpt
The Nexus Project @nexusproject.bsky.social Combating antisemitism and protecting democracy
Adam Steinbaugh @adamsteinbaugh.bsky.social First Amendment attorney at FIRE. Opinions are my own.
Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social Here and there.
Jay Rosen @jayrosen.bsky.social Let's see... 39 years teaching journalism at NYU. A critic who tries to be useful. PressThink: the name of my subject and my site. My book: "What Are Journalists For?" (1999, Yale University Press)
Natasha Lennard @natashalennard.bsky.social Columnist at The Intercept; editing Public Seminar; professor of critical journalism at The New School; author - “Being Numerous: Essays on Non-Fascist Life” and "On Un/Certainty" (Verso); antifascism, abolition, Wittgenstein from the left.
Institute for Policy Studies @ips-dc.org The Institute for Policy Studies has been the research arm of movements challenging inequality, corporate power, polluters, and militarism since 1963. www.ips-dc.org
Bellingcat @bellingcat.com Bellingcat is a global collective uncovering facts to hold power to account. Our work is independent. Our methods are public. Our community is global.
Want to support our charity? bellingcat.com/donate
Columbia Journalism Review @columjournreview.bsky.social Monitoring the press, tracking the evolving media business & encouraging excellence in journalism since 1961.
NPQ (Nonprofit Quarterly) @npquarterly.bsky.social Journalism for civil society. Reporting on leadership, climate justice, racial justice, health justice, economic justice, philanthropy, and equity issues.
Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social Jacobin offers socialist perspectives on politics, economics, and culture. Support our work and subscribe to our print magazine!
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